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The Concept of Comedy in Aristophanes’ Acharnian

... of tragedy (an idealized imitation of human action) and its function (the catharsis of such emotions as pity and fear). This argument for the psycho-social benefit of ...

(10 pages) 3640 0 0.0 01/Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Domination of Technology Over Reality Strips Away Regard for Life

... of laughter below and the piano-string scurry of rat feet, the violin squeaking of mice, and the great shadowing, motioned silence of ...

(5 pages) 39 0 5.0 16/Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Methods of Satire used in "Candide", "Animal Farm", "Hard Times"

... not have known it. Their sacrifice is not for the benefit of themselves as they think but, readers soon realize, for their ... was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. Dickens encourages contempt and laughter in the reader. ...

(7 pages) 26 0 5.0 03/Apr/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

King Lear - Analytical Monologue Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 268-284

... in her brow of youth,With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,Turn all her mother's pains and benefits 280To laughter and contempt ... that what is 'natural' is right. For example, for much of the play, Lear believes everything he does is natural and ...

(3 pages) 3147 0 0.0 07/Sep/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Utopia: the naive dream. a book comparison between "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, "1984" by George Orwell and "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

... the love for Big Brother. There will be no laughter, expect for the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no ... make a choice that would benefit the loved one and harm the community. As they held the good of society in mind, the government ...

(30 pages) 22 0 3.0 25/Mar/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Title- Comparative Analysis of The Wanderer and The Seafarer.

... of the gannet / and the cry of the curlew instead of men´s laughter /, the screaming sea-mew instead of mead.´ - there is set the contrast between the pleasures of ...

(9 pages) 125 1 4.7 13/Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Views On Female Marriages in "Pride and Prejudice" and "Jane Eyre".

... the attic sometimes making monstrous laughters. Jane cannot accept the fact she has heard. Her sweet dream of welfare falls into pieces ... have been benefited by marriage. But he found, in reply to this question, that Wickham still cherish the hope of more ...

(25 pages) 75 0 5.0 07/Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Existentialism In Film

... of the shockingly absurd condition of man's existence, and that the only possible confrontation one might make against the absurd is laughter. Some of ...

(16 pages) 60 0 0.0 01/Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Justice in King Lear

... thing of fortune, Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear. The lamentable change is from the best; The worst returns to laughter. Welcome ... for man's benefit: These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature can ...

(6 pages) 102 0 3.6 07/Apr/1992

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

18.TH CENTURY POETRY

... benefit by the attack (regardless of who is the immediate object of attack); whenever possible this shock of recognition is to be conveyed through laughter ...

(6 pages) 27 0 0.0 17/Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

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